[dpdk-dev] [ovs-dpdk bug] Failing to release memory when QEMU exits?

[Sam]

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2017-10-31 10:43 GMT+08:00 Sam <batmanustc at gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> I found in ovs-dpdk it is failing to release memory when QEMU exits. Is
> this a clear bug in ovs-dpdk? If it is, when did this bug fixed? Detail is
> bellow:
>
>
> For qemu-2.6.0 and ovs-dpdk, in huge page (1G) environment, after kill the
> qemu process, memory which is alloc for the vm could not be released.
>
> The start up command is:
>
> CMD1="$QEMU_CMD -D qemu.log -trace events=qemu-events-all -enable-kvm -cpu
> qemu64,+vmx,+ssse3,+sse4.1,+sse4.2,+x2apic,+aes,+avx,+vme,+p
> at,+ss,+pclmulqdq,+xsave,level=13 -machine pc,accel=kvm -chardev
> socket,id=hmqmondev,port=55908,host=127.0.0.1,nodelay,server,nowait -mon
> chardev=hmqmondev,id=hmqmon,mode=readline -rtc
> base=utc,clock=host,driftfix=none -usb -device usb-tablet -daemonize
> -nodefaults -nodefconfig -no-kvm-pit-reinjection -global
> kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard -vga std -k en-us -smp 8 -name
> gangyewei-qemutime-1 -m 40960 -boot order=cdn -vnc :8,password -drive
> file=$DISK_0,if=none,id=drive_0,format=qcow2,cache=none,aio=native
> -device virtio-blk-pci,id=dev_drive_0,drive=drive_0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5
> -drive file=$DISK_1,if=none,id=drive_1,format=qcow2,cache=none,aio=native
> -device virtio-blk-pci,id=dev_drive_1,drive=drive_1,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6
> -drive file=$DISK_2,if=none,id=drive_2,format=qcow2,cache=none,aio=native
> -device virtio-blk-pci,id=dev_drive_2,drive=drive_2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7
> -device ide-cd,drive=ide0-cd0,bus=ide.1,unit=1 -drive
> id=ide0-cd0,media=cdrom,if=none -chardev socket,id=char-n-52b49b80,path
> =/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/n-52b49b80,server -netdev
> type=vhost-user,id=n-52b49b80,chardev=char-n-52b49b80,vhostforce=on
> -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=n-52b49b80,mac=00:22:52:b4:9b:80,id=ne
> tdev-n-52b49b80,addr=0xf$(nic_speed 10000) -object
> memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=40960M,mem-path=/mnt/huge,share=on -numa
> node,memdev=mem -pidfile $PID_FILE -chardev socket,path=/opt/cloud/workspa
> ce/servers/4511f52a-f450-40d3-9417-a1e0a27ed507/qga.sock,server,nowait,id=qga0
> -device virtio-serial -device virtserialport,chardev=qga0,na
> me=org.qemu.guest_agent.0"
>
> The stop script is just kill this process.
>
> the result of `cat /proc/meminfo` show memory is still there.
>
> After restart ovs-dpdk(which is openvswitch with dpdk lib), memory is
> released.
>
>